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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 253: “The Rock”
On this week's episode of Mousterpiece Cinema, Josh and Gabe are joined by Mark Harris of New York Magazine to discuss Michael Bay's "The Rock."
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Sundance 2016: Hard Bodies, Soft Sells
In his latest dispatch from Sundance, Marshall Shaffer analyzes some films' shared themes of masculinity.
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Why “13 Hours” Respecting The Troops Doesn’t Make It Good
Michael Bay's Benghazi movie conflates U.S. soldiers to mythic status, but that message is more insidious than intended.
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“We Are Not Things”: Women as Depicted in “Mad Max: Fury Road” & “Transformers”
There is a scene early in George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road in which a woman is shown scaling Imperator Furiosa’s war-rig tanker to enter the cab. The audience is bound to assume this woman is part of the precious cargo stolen from the tyrannical self-proclai...
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Opening Acts 1/23/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
Michael Bay Apologizes, Will Cut B-52 Crash From Film, ...
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Michael Bay Setting Up Benghazi Movie “13 Hours”
My name is Dylan Moses Griffin, and I am a fan of Michael Bay. I'm not even saying that in some sort of ironic sense, the guy's films entertain the hell out of me. Yeah, I know 2/4 of his Transformers films are awful - the first one is appropriate for what a T...
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Criterion Goes Pop
Criterion claims to collect "important contemporary and classic films." To fully do that, it's high time they accepted pop cinema.
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Michael Bay Leaving “Transformers” Behind, Again
If there is one man who can lay claim to box-office supremacy this summer, that would be Michael Bay. His latest directorial effort, Transformers: Age of Extinction, has brought in over $1 billion worldwide. Add in the success as the producer of this weekend's...
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“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” An Uninspired Revival of the Iconic ’80s Heroes
“Litter Stops Here” reads the sign that’s prominently displayed in front of April O’Neil (Megan Fox) at the beginning of an early setpiece in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the reboot of the Gen-Y-favorite franchise that spans films, video games, TV shows, and ...
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Netflix Weekend 7/4: AMERICA!
Welcome to Netflix Weekend! Each week I’ll be highlighting three films available to watch on Netflix Instant that (hopefully) share a coherent theme, and why they should be watched.
Since it’s July 4th weekend, I thought we’d take a look at three of the mos...
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